James Martin served up tasty roast lamb with Middle Eastern spices, yoghurt and blacken tomato dressing on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients for the lamb are: 1kg lamb chops, Salt, to taste, 2 tbsp olive oil, 1tsp za’atar, 1tsp sumac and 2 lemons, 1 zested & juiced, and 1 cut into quarters.

For the sauce: 2 banana shallots, peeled and cut in half lengthways (100g net), 6 garlic cloves, unpeeled, 5 red chillis, 6 plum tomatoes, 75ml olive oil, 1 tbsp sumac, 1 tbsp za’atar and 2 tbsp pomegranate molasses.

To serve: Mint leaves, parsley, dill and coriander, finely chopped, 4 tbsp Greek yoghurt, 1 avocado, chopped and A few pomegranate seeds.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.